Joseph Arch

Joseph Arch (10 November 1826-12 February 1919) was the UK Liberal Party MP for North West Norfolk from 1885 to 1886, preceding Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, and from 1892 to 1900, succeeding Cavendish-Bentinck and preceding George White.

Biography
Joseph Arch was born in Barford, Warwickshire, England on 10 November 1826. Arch became a prominent trade unionist, organizing agricultural laborers in 1872; just a year earlier, the Acts of 1871 had legalized trade unions in the country. Arch played a key role in championing agricultural workers and promoting their welfare, and he became a popular liberal activist. In 1885, he was elected to Parliament as a UK Liberal Party politician, and he served from 1885 to 1886 and from 1892 to 1900; Henry Cavendish-Bentinck briefly interrupted his terms in the House of Commons. He died in 1919.